{"id":1625,"date":"2018-10-03T11:34:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T18:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2018-10-03T11:34:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T18:34:02","slug":"messick-september-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/?p=1625","title":{"rendered":"Messick SEPTEMBER 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"\" align=\"CENTER\"><span class=\"\"><i class=\"\"><b class=\"\">SEPTEMBER 2018<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" align=\"CENTER\">\u201c<span class=\"\" style=\"font-size: large;\"><i class=\"\"><b class=\"\">And my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord.\u201d Jer. 31:14b<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" align=\"LEFT\">Giving praise to God for all His goodness means laying aside our temptation to complain. How could we when we see His handiwork all around us; the beautiful mountains that surround us, the gorgeous sunrises and sunsets, the wildlife that wanders across our property from time to time, but most of all His life-changing work in hearts. Though these changes don&#8217;t come as quickly as we&#8217;d like, God is faithful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" align=\"LEFT\">After the \u201cbusyness\u201d of this summer, September slowed down a bit. Some months we have more to report than other months, but things are going well at church. Your prayers for Rachel&#8217;s healing after her amputation surgery have been answered. Her son, his girlfriend and a niece have been bringing her to services. Please pray for the salvation of the three coming with her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" align=\"LEFT\">We have begun a church choir. On our first Sunday singing together, seven ladies and two men joined us, including Rachel in her wheelchair. What a blessing!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" align=\"LEFT\">We are anxiously awaiting the soon arrival of Paul &amp; Naomi&#8217;s fifth child. HE is due on October 8<sup class=\"\">th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Would you please pray with us about the following?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li class=\"\">\n<p class=\"\">The salvation of Rachel&#8217;s niece, son and his girlfriend.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li class=\"\">\n<p class=\"\">The health needs of Paul, our youth pastor. The safe arrival of Paul &amp; Naomi&#8217;s baby.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li class=\"\">\n<p class=\"\">Strength for the day.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">\n<p class=\"\">That each of us would stay close to the Lord and grow in our walk with Him.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">\n<p class=\"\">That we would show our love for Him as we serve Him.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">\n<p class=\"\">The much needed modular replacement.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">\n<p class=\"\">Healing for fellow-missionary, Brian Shannon, badly injured in a motorcycle accident.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"\">We feel so privileged to serve here, and we thank you for your help in making this possible. Your prayers are crucial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Love in Christ,<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Gary &amp; Bev Messick<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEPTEMBER 2018 \u201cAnd my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord.\u201d Jer. 31:14b Giving praise to God for all His goodness means laying aside our temptation to complain. How could we when we see His handiwork all around us; the beautiful mountains that surround us, the gorgeous sunrises and sunsets, the wildlife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"hide_page_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-57","category-messick-missionary-letters","category-missionary-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}